the support of the Indiana General Assembly. The grant provided annual funding for schools to implement Reading Recovery, a highly regarded early literacy program, or other literacy interventions. From its inception, approximately $31.4 million has been distributed through the grant program. Since 1997, the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP, formerly the Indi-ana Education Policy...

AESTRACT THEAUTHOR FRAMES THE POLICY ISSUES surrounding children and digital libraries by establishing two criteria for decision making: (1) Does this policy facilitate access to information by children and young adults? and (2) Does this policy enable the library to provide better service to children and young adults? The intellectual freedom issues are discussed along with the range of respon...

In 2009, President Barack Obama declared October of that year to be National Information Literacy Awareness Month and issued a proclamation stating that “an informed and educated citizenry is essential to the functioning of our modern democratic society.” The Obama proclamation’s emphasis on information literacy’s role in education and democracy makes it akin to the 2005 Alexandria Proclamation...

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Media literacy education is not as advanced in the USA as in several other English speaking areas, such as Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. Despite decades of struggle since the 1970s by individuals and groups, media education is still only reaching a small percentage of K /12 schools in the US. While some major inroads have been made, such as getting elements of media literacy included in...

BACKGROUND Food and nutrition literacy is an emerging term which is increasingly used in policy and research. Though research in this area is growing, progression is limited by the lack of an accepted method to measure food and nutrition literacy. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable questionnaire to assess food and nutrition literacy in elementary school children in the cit...